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Windows 7: Active Directory Domain Service not currently available

Trying to print to wireless Brother printer that was working perfectly, also lost communication with Ethernet connected HP laserjet. Get errors indicating "printer offline" and Netgear WIMDR3400v2 doesn't have a driver. These printers work from other computers on the LAN, and were working until recently. I think I installed a update to the Netgear Router, and that may have been the problem, but I do not know where to go now.

Is the DNS set correctly? Check your IP settings (ipconfig). Did you lose any LAN functionality on that PC other than what you stated? Open network shares, Internet problems? How are you connected to the Netgear Router?

A Domain controller runs Windows Server software and has Active Directory (AD) installed. AD provides a central database of user info including their id and password. vs machines defined as in a WorkGroup have all user credentials stored locally on the machine.

Example: You have 1,000 employees with PCs at their desks. You could define each PC in a Worgroup but then each PC must replicate the user credentials of everyone at the company allowed to logon to that machine. That quickly becomes a maintenance nightmare as people come/leave a company causing each PC user account database need be updated on the local machine.

Instead a central database of user info, is the better way to go. (ergo: Active Directory) And especially as companies grow (with as many as 100,000+ PCs no on the network) When a user logs on to a PC in a domain, PC sends user validation request over the network. It;s received by a Server running AD. AD validates user credentials and returns a security token to the PC allowing the user's PC session to begin.

Meaning: if a PC is in domain, user authentication fails when no domain controller with AD exists to service the request. You;d get "Active Directory Domain Service not currently available"

Active Directory Domain Service not currently available

The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailableHi - Fixing my elderly father's W7/64 desktop. Attempting to print form MS Word to an HP3390 does not give any errors but does not print, either. Attempting to "find printer" from MS Word gives "The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable." I went to services.msc to turn on that...

Hardware & Devices

A really strange error with Active Directory Domain.My customer has a small business with 2 x HP Proliant ML110 G6 servers installed ith VMware ESX 4.1.
He has 7 Windows 7 64-bit workstations in a domain. He has a Windows 2003, 32-bit Domain Controller and 5 of the machines are in the domain. The other two are in a Workgroup and have DNS and...

General Discussion

Active Directory Domain not availableHello,
I'm having problems connecting a printer to my laptop. The printer was working but when my laptop went away for repair it did not work on its return.
The printer works on my macbook and my PC running Vista however it will not run on the laptop running Windows 7 home premium 64 bit. ...

Hardware & Devices

active directory domain services is currently unavailable errorPurchased my Dell Studio 1749 laptop on Mon. and trying to add my printer/copier at my office. when I go to the print page in Word 2007 there is an Find Printer button. I've used this feature before to install printers. but, when I click on the button I get this error message - Active Directory...

Network & Sharing

The Active Directory Domain Services -errorHi, I'm new to these forms, my name is Kcaz.
Today I was trying to add wireless printers to my computer (Toshiba running Windows 7 64 bit). At home, I have one wireless printer (Cannon) which works fine. To install that i think I downloaded the drivers from a CD.
Now I was trying to download...